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[Source - Debra Pryor for FHYA, 2026: Where the FHYA has been unable to obtain a digital copy of an item, it inserts a placeholder for the absent or withheld item. The placeholder records the item's existence in a physical archive or collection and serves as a proposal for its future inclusion in the digital archive.] Institutional metadata [Source - Benathi Marufu for FHYA, 2023, reproduced this information from a spreadsheet provided by the F.S. Malan museum at Fort Hare University: Category: ceramics; Indigenous names: Mepochwana; Object type: vessel; Geographical location: Eastern Cape; Place collected: Fobane, Mount Fletcher; Date collected: 1942; Use: Pot for drinking beer; Donor's name: Malimakatso Pitiri; Physical appearance: Herd-boy shaped pot with three strips on body (Sotho); acc. No: 000-562.]
| Event Actor | Event Type | Event Date | Event Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Five Hundred Year Archive (FHYA) | Online curation | 2023- | |
| F.S. Malan museum, Fort Hare University | Custody | 1962 | |
| The Estelle Hamilton-Welsh Collection | Collection | 1942 | |
| No attribution | Making | [before 1942] |
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